The Great Robot Takeover Reaches The Circus"Take, for example, the robot KUKA - the hulking star of a French nouveau-cirque performance, Sans Objet." KUKA isn't an effect or scenery: it's an actual performer, "a mysterious bulk who grows very tall, spreads himself wide and is strong enough to pick up people effortlessly and turn their bodies in the air, the way Hamlet would inspect a skull." NPR 11/08/12 (includes video)